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to as many stamens, and with them seated on the top of a very 
short, glabrous, cylindrical receptacle, together with a thick tuft 
of stiff hairs as long as the stamens ; filaments incurved, thick, 
fleshy, 1 line long, very shortly excurrent at the apex ; anther- 
cells oblong, divergent at base, introrsely and dorsally adnate 
upon the filament. 
4. Triclisia subcordata, Oliv. MS.j — ramis teretibus, striatis, 
glabris, ramulis patentibus, flexuosis, tomentosis ; folds late 
ovatis, imo subcordatis, apice valde obtusis aut subacutis et 
mucronatis, e basi 3-nerviis et triplinerviis, nervis cum alteris 
pinnatis utrinque 3 anastomosantibus, supra nitidis, valde 
reticulatis, glaberrimis, subtus pallidioribus, glaucis, costa 
nervisque tenuibus, ferrugineo-tomentosis, cseteroquin glabris, 
marginibus subrevolutis et interdum crenulato-undulatis ; 
petiolo flavo-tomentoso, limbo 4-5-plo breviore ; inflorescentia 
axillari, dense pubescente : pedunculo brevissimo, crassius- 
culo, ramis brevissimis, apice 3-floris ; floribus brevissime 
pedicellatis, pedicellis imo 3-bracteolatis ; sepalis 12, extus 
gradatim minoribus et bracteiformibus, acute ovatis, carno- 
sulis, extus carinatis et dense pilosis, 3 interioribus suborbicu- 
latis, concavis, aestivatione valvatis ; petalis 6, squamiformibus, 
carnosulis, glabris, acute ovatis, cum staminibus androecio 
affixis; staminibus 6, aequalibus, filamentis sursum sensim 
valde incrassatis, falciformi-incurvis, connective excurrente 
obtusulo longe apiculatis, et in centre conniventibus, glabris ; 
androecii brevissimi summo longissime pilose. Inflorescentia 
$ axillari, valde simillima; sepalis ut in masc.; petalis niillis; 
ovariis circiter 6, gibboso-oblongis, stylisque rectis, aequilongis, 
ad centrum spectantibus, longe pilosis; gynaeciis tomentosis, 
cum pedicellis demum confluentibus, et receptaculum fere 
sessile, crassum, globosum, drupas 18 vel pauciores crebriter 
acei’vatas gerens foi-mantibus ; drupis subovalibus, tomentosis, 
piso majoribus. — In Africa aequinoctiali : v. s. in herb. Hook., 
Nupi, Niger river, c? et ? (Barter, 1146 et 3397). 
A scandent plant, with smooth flexuous branches, with axils 
2-3 inches apart : in the ^ plant the leaves are somewhat pointed 
at the apex, 4-5 inches long, 2|-3| inches broad, with irregu- 
larly crenated margins, on a petiole J inch long : in the $ plant 
they are roundish at the apex, with entire margins, 3|-4 inches 
long, 3-3J inches broad, on a petiole f-1 inch long. The ^ 
panicle is axillary, scarcely more than 6 lines long, shortly pe- 
dunculated, with extremely short 3-flowered branchlets, forming 
a close, almost globular head; the flowers are green, nearly 
sessile, oblong-oval in bud, nearly 2 lines long, consisting of 
